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Medicare.com AdNetwork Content Guidelines for Publishers

Sites displaying Medicare.com AdNetwork ads must adhere to the following policies. Medicare.com reserves the right to remove any site at any time from the AdNetwork program, at its sole discretion.

Publisher Site Content

Sites displaying Medicare.com ads must adhere to the AdNetwork Editorial Guidelines and may not include content promoting or enabling any of the following:

Hate speech, including sites devoted to intolerance, violence, defamation, or destruction of peoples, races, religions, countries, or ideologies
Weapons, ammunition, harmful substances, or glorification of violence
Alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or drug paraphernalia
Gambling or casinos
Pharmaceutical sales (unless site is certified by PharmacyChecker)
Adult and Mature content (including pornography, sex toys, or sex education)
Trademark and Copyright Infringements – e.g., sites devoted to selling fake handbags or bootleg DVDs, or sites promoting illegal file downloads
Fake documents and cheating Services – sites enabling a consumer to evade the law, education systems, or other good-faith arrangements
Hacking, cracking, security evasion, and surveillance
Bulk marketing, email address mining, instructions on how to spam
Multi-level marketing, get rich quick sites, work from home sites
Excessive profanity
Other illegal or offensive content, or any content that infringes on the rights of others

Publisher Site Behavior:

Publisher pages may not contain any pop-ups or pop-unders that are not part of a user-initiated action
Publisher pages may not issue any “leave-behinds” or other actions when a user clicks away from the page
Sites whose primary intent is to induce end users to click on ads are not permitted.
Sites whose primary content is ads are not permitted.
Sites with entirely or largely imported content are not permitted.
Sites may not download software onto or change settings on a user’s machine without the user’s express permission.
Sites may not disable the user’s back button or otherwise interfere with a user’s navigation path.
Sites must offer content that is primarily in one of AdNetwork’s supported languages: English.
Sites under construction or unfinished are not permitted.
Sites requesting personally identifiable information (PII) from users must contain a prominent link to a privacy policy.

Ad Block:

Publisher pages may contain up to 3 ad units.
Ad units must be clearly marked as advertisements, and contain the words “Sponsored Links.” This text may not be obscured in a way that may mislead the user or suggest that the ads are natural links.
Users must be able to distinguish advertising links from other links on the page.
The ad block or ad unit may not be displayed as a pop-up
Medicare.com reserves the right to remove any site at any time from the AdNetwork program, at its sole discretion.

Reporting Policy Violations

If you find ads or publisher sites which violate Medicare.com AdNetwork policies, please submit a complaint to AdSupport@Medicare.com

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